Hi Steele,

I believe in democracy. My understanding is that it means that we are all equal, can believe whatever we choose without fear of persecution, and that whatever one believes does not necessarily make him good or bad.

I hope that the hostages are safe and will be released soon. I don't think that a society raising kids with the ambition of killing their neighbours has a future.

For all the people who use the words 'Anti-Semite' and 'Jew hater'.
I wish it would be their friends, families, parents, children being bombed.
Then their would be a cost to their tacit support of what we see happening.
Scream Jew hater all you want when it's your own kids getting their arms blown off.
http://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1725566532221063284

Israel claims a 'right' to do this?
This is self-defense?

Israel is an apartheid child murdering terrorist state.
And you lot supporting it are no better than if you were doing it yourselves.

AC

Your comment: “For all the people who use the words 'Anti-Semite' and 'Jew hater'.
I wish it would be their friends, families, parents, children being bombed”, is the most outrageous post ever to get past the moderator.

Someone calls you or anyone else an anti-Semite or a Jew-hater, and you want their friends, parents and children bombed.

Just because you get called a couple of names.

You have certainly disqualified yourself as a rational human being.

You are sick.

Hi AC,

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine/murder of its civilian population, the justification was Putin's claim that Ukraine had become infested with armed extremists hellbent on killing Russians, so Russia was thus justified in demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine. You were believing and accepting of this justification.

Now what is different about Israel trying to remove Hamas from the Gaza strip, other than the justification being factual?

Carnegie Middle-East scholars tell us:

We need to take a step back and have
a look at the root cause of the terrible events
that are happening.

They say that the world
might have been surprised at the size of the Hamas
attack, but that it should not have been surprised
that it took place.

They say - the international community bears
part of the responsibility for letting the conflict
simmer and for accepting the longest occupation in
modern history.

We're told that the time has now come when the world
can no longer ignore the fact that as long as the
Israeli occupation continues, more blood will be
unnecessarily spilled by both sides.

They say that Palestinians in Gaza have been locked in
a prison for nearly 20 years under siege by Israel
without any political lifeline.

The explosion of such a horrific nature was the direct
result of a lack of any political horizon.

Those who felt that peace was possible in the region
without coming to terms with the Palestinian
occupation have now had that false impression shattered.

The international community is now faced with a
radical Israeli government that is not interested in
any compromise, and an ineffective Palestinian leadership
that has now been further weakened by current events
and a US administration that is pre-occupied with
presidential elections next year.

The conditions don't appear favourable for a political
initiative which would require a willingness of both
parties to seriously engage, as well as the US
administration - that has so far been disinterested.

The facts summed up by these Middle-East scholars
are not pleasant. They tell us that - the longer the
world continues to focus only on the here and now, the
more it will have to deal with casualties on both sides.

We're told that - there is no military solution
to this conflict. That while everyone understands this
basic fact, the insistence to keep ignoring the root
of the problem - the occupation - can only keep
spelling disaster.

Israel is in proximity to nations with 600 million Arabic inhabitants. None of them are helping Gaza against Israel as other nations have helped Ukrainians against Russia. Why is that? As for apartheid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35eEljsSQfc